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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-14
WORK OF THE WAVES.
Schooner Minnie Lost in Bras
dor Lake.
One of the Crew Frozen 20 Death While
Going for Assistanco-SYreckag Plum
dered By People Ofthe Mainland.

Captain Carew and the surviving menl-
bers of tthe crew of the Newfoundland
schooner Minnie, from Georgetown to st.
Johns arrived at Halifax, N. S, Jan. Z. !.
They tell thrilling story OF shipwreck, suf-
fering, death and the plundering of the yes
sci. The Minnie struck on Kelly shoal, in
the Bras dor Lake, during binding snow
storm, on the afternoon of December %. It
was bitter cold, and the men, while lashed to
the pumps, were covered With icicles The
water gained steadily on tie pumps, and the
vessel was struck by q tremendous sea- which
stove her lee bilge, and filed her with water.
The ill-fated vessel sank within five minutes.
As the schooner sank out of sight the men
jumped in their dory, and pulled for what
they could dimly diecern through the blind
ing snow to be the shore. After rowing
some miles they reached land. They
crawled ashore and found themselves
on an island, on which there were two
houses. One of the crew persisted in cross
ing through the woods, to the nearest house,
but had not gone far before he froze to
death. The rest of the crew, including a
brother of John Gathral, the man who died
concluded they could only escape a similar
fate by keeping i'll the water. they walked
two miles along the shore, in wate~
up to their arm pits hauling their
boat after them. While suffering TERRIBLY
foom cold and exhaustion, they succeeded in
saving their lives, finding the temperature in
the water much milder than out of it. When
they reached one of the houses on The island
they looked more like moving icebergs than
like human beings. They were kindly cared
for. After being fed and warmed, general
alarm was raised, and the whole population
turned out with lanterns to search fer the
body of the frozen man. They found him
next day. While searching for the dead man
the captain and crew found the wreckage of
the vessel being plundered by the light
housekeepers and people of the mainland.
Captain Carew says he could not induce any
magistrate to arrest or punish the wreckers,
and if ever again he is cast away on tho
coast he will be found armed with revolver
and bowie knife, The vessel was owned by
the captain, and was not insured. Both
himself and crew go back to Newfoundland
with what they stand upright in, and with
out cents remuneration for their long
summers labor or to keep themselves and
their families during long and bitter New
foundland winter
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-14
NATIONAL GAPITAI.

The Duke of Sunderland and his party,
who have been here for a week past have left
for Florida on a special train which has
been awaiting their orders since arriving
here.
DR.. O'Reilly and Col. Lamont state that
the President is much improved, and that
there is no foundation for the sen >ational
reports about his condition.
The statement of the public debt shows q
decrease of So, 400, 900 during the month of
December.
The commissions of lis presidential post
masters will expire in February, and 40 in
March, this being the last expirations till the
50Lh Congress meets, December 5. On the
February list are the postmasters at
Bangor, Me-, Lewiston, Me-, and Burlington,
VT
Nicholas M. Bell superintendent of foreign
mails, is informed by the Brussels director
of posts that 100 of the United States regis
tered packages lost in the Belgian mail rob
berry of November 18th have been found
unopened under sofa in one of the parlors
of the Grand Hotel at Brussels.
The secretary of the treasury has ap-
pointed Herbei t F. Beecher to be a special
agent Of the treasury He is a son of Henry
Ward Beecher, and WIS formerly collector
of customs at Port Townsend, w. Z.
Assistant Secretary Fairchild has author
lied the free entry of a statue imported at
Boston for the use of the German Church at
Boston, of which Rev. T. X. Hopper is the
pastor, provided the artists certificate is
produced within 80 days.
Senator Brown of Georgia has returned to
the city, He was interviewed as to the re-
ports that he intended to resign his seat He
replied that he had had return of an old
throat trouble, which kept him away until
now, but that he had returned to resume his
duties in the Senate
The total appropriation made by the river
and harbor bill, as reported 10 tie House, is
| 81, 1866, ,250.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-14
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

P. T. BARNUM has built three toboggan
slides at Bridgeport, Conn.
A GRANDSON of the late Reverdy johnson
of Maryland is page in the United States
Senate.
THE Empress of Austria wants to visit this
country, having always longed for ride on
the prairles.
EVANGELIST D. L. MOODY has been in
vlted to visit Australia and conduct revival
meetings, but he has declined.
On the first of January Emperor William
celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his
entry into the German army
MASSACHUSETTS will have two authors Of
books in Congress when Henry Cabot Lodge
and Governor Long meet there.
SENATOR LOGAN was sixty years. ten
months and fifteen days old at the time of his
death. He did not look, however, more than
fifty.
BONANZA KING FLOODS stone house in
San Francisco cost S2,0O0,0O0 The cost of
Leland Stanford's wooden house is estimated
at Sl,000,000.
1T is said that ex-senator Conkling is very
charitable toward impecunious members of
the legal profession and gives away large
sums of money.
SENATORS PAYNE and Ingalls, are said to
be rivals for the pedestrian Championship of
the United States Senate. They are both in
defatigable walkers.
HENRY M. STANLEY has left London for
Zanzibar, Africa. He is said have declined
an offer of S400, 600 to return to America and
resume his lecturing tour
SCULPTOR EZEKIEL has finished little
figure of Robert r. Lee to be placed in front
of the house in Westmoreland County Va,
in which the General was born.
SRNAToR MORRILL, Is noted for his resem-
blance to Charles Sumner. He has been in
Congress thirty-one years--twelve in the
House and nineteen in the Senate.
SECRETARY LAMAR is regarded as the best
swordsman in Washington There are sew
eral Senators whose knowledge of singlestick
would enable them to defend themselves if
attacked
Mr. S. Fl. PULEsToN, the millionaire men,
Der of Parliament, who is about to purchase
600 worth of Pennsylvania coal lands,
was twenty years ago reporter on small
paper at Pittston, Penn.
The Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of
Westminster and the Duke of Bedford have
incomes ranging from S1,500,0O0 to $780,
600 year No one thinks of trying to esti-
mate their possessions in any other way.
THE Independent is authority for the state
ment that DR.. Douglas really lost his own
health by his efforts in the care of General
Grant He has gone to Arkansas and Flor
ida for the winter with his family, a man Sc
riously out of health
THE telephone is put to new and conven-
lent use in Brussels. Gentlemen who wish
to rise early, but don't like to, can have a
row of little bells along the edge of their
beds, which ring viciously, until they rise
and stop the disturbance.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-14
TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST.
No one Left TO Tell the Tale OF tn
Wrecked Ship Elizabeth.

No one Left TO Tell the Tale OF the
Wrecked Ship Elizabeth.
A dispatch from Norfolk, Va, Jan. g. says
the German ship Elizabeth went ashore on
Virginia beach, fourteen miles south of Cape
Henry, Jan. s, with crew of Twenty-Five
men, all of whom were lost. This fact is
learned from the two men of the life saving
service who survive, and who recovered
consciousness. The bodies of the five men
of the life saving crew and four of the ships
crew which were recovered were in life
preservers, and three more of the ships
crew without life preservers were picked up
down the coast.
A body which has been identified as that
of the captain is among those recovered
On his person was a photograph marked
Captain f. Halberstadt, and lAtters addressed
to Henry Kaufman and several bills
from Joseph Lamke 81 Co. Bremerhaven
As reported last night, not a word was
spoken between the ships crew and the life
saving men when they boarded her in their
desperate attempt at rescue, and the cause of
the wreck can never be positively known,
although it is supposed that in attempting
to make the capes Of Virginia, under reefed
sails, sufficient allowance was not made for
the strong currents which have caused sew
eral disastrous wrecks along the lower Vir-
ginia and North Carolina coasts during the
last few years.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-14
NEWS NOTES.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
len lasters in the employ of p. p Sherry
at Lynn, Mass, have been discharged because
they refused to sign his cooperative docu-
ment.
1t is reported that the Bay State Arms Co.
~ y. Uxbrldge, Mass, will remove to Meriden,
Nearly all the Provincetown, Mass. whaI-
ing heet will fit early this season, sailing in
February and March for the West Indi,s
humpback whaling grounds.
@ Thomas Stevens, the bicyclist who left
San Francisco, Cal, April 1S, 1881, on a
bicycle tour around the world, has arrived
there from Japan on the City of Pekin.
In court, at st. Louis, Mo-, the counsel for
F9theringh am applied for reduction of his
clients bail The court fixed the bail in each
OF Two cases at $780, The original amount
was $40, 900 in each case.
terrific explosion occurred on Saturday
last in the new Touring mill at Carberry. 100
miles west of Winnipeg, Man. The explo-
sion was caused by flour dust igniting. The
loss on the building and machinery is $685.
coo. ~
Captain Warren and William R. Wing.
master and agent Of the whaling bark Allan
tic of New Bedford, Mass, have been
acquitted in the lower court in San Francisco,
on their examination for manslaughter in
connection with the loss of the bark,
The Great Eastern Tea Company of Ports
mouth, N. H., have assigned for the benefit
OF creditors. Assets reported one-flfth of
the liabilities.
A. p Martin g. Co., Boston, Mass, have
accepted the propo al of their credtor TO
pay 40 cents on the dollar.
A claim for S31, 900 has been presented to
the towns of Rockland and Abingdon, Mass.
by Meaney q Co.. water works cont; actors
Schooner Hereward at Glouce ter, Mass.
from Grand banks, reports the loss of two of
her crew by getting astray while attending
travis.
A board of trade has been formed at Nor
wich, Ct
Frank Lanville killed George Seaver, pro-
prieter of the stage line between Burkesvill.
and Glasgow, KY, at the latter place on
Saturday last.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is SER
ously i'll of pleurisy.
A company with 50, OO0 900 has been formed
at Memphis, Tenn. to mine manganese beds
in Missouri and Arkansas.
Nearly $4,000 in gold and bills, besides
valuable documents, have been discovered in
the habitation of the two old misers found
dead in Philadelphia
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-14
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

LAWRENCE BARRETT played Cassius, Mac
beth, ETC., at II.
FEMALE performers first took the female
parts in plays during the reign of Charles H.,
of England
ONE enterprising firm controls fourteen
theatres in as many different cities of the
United States.
MILE. SCHNEIDER, who created the Lead
ing roles in nearly all of Offenbach's operas,
is rich and lives in retirement near Paris.
NEW YORK has new pianist who is max
ing good deal of q stir, Adele Aus der Ohe,
a young German woman and real pupil of
Listz.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN, the composer,
imbibed his musical tastes from his father,
who was royal bandmaster at Sandhurst
He spent most Of his boyhood in his fathers
bandroom.
IT is stated that Strauss receives 81, 900 for
each waltz he composes from publisher in
Germany, who buys every work he writes
and gives him an extra sum for every new
edition. "The Blue Danube" has had twenty
six editions already.
TIE first piano which left Erard's manufac-
factory, 1899, is in the market. 1t was be-
queathel by the daughter and heiress Of
Carat, the singer, to M. Blavat, with in-
structions to sell it for the benefit of the poor
al her native city,.
9. w. CouLDocK, after fifty years upon
the stage, will retire some time in the spring.
Prior to doing so, however, he will be given
benefit in New York, tn which, 1t is said,
Edwin Booth, Lawrence and Wilson Barrett,
Joe jefferson and Nine. Modjeska will ap.
pear.
GEORGE HENscHEL, well known here for.
merly as a singer and musician, is giving a
series of symphony concerts in Lcndon,
which are described as one Of the most at
tractve features of the musical season in
that city both for novelty of production and
excellence of performance.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-14
FOREIGN

The Marchiones5 OF Queensbury has in
stituted an action for divorce against her
husband the Marquis of Queensberry,
Four of the young men condemned to
death recently at Sidney, N. S. W, for an
outrageous assault upon u servant girl, were
hanged here yesterday. Two others who
were to have been executed yesterday were
reprieved.
Pelin advices say that Tsung Lii Yamen,
the Chinese minister of foreign affairs has
agreed to pay S25, 900 to the American mis-
sionaries who suffered loss during the recent
riots at Ching Kings This settlement was
effected through the efforts of Minister Dem
by.
The Northern Pacific Railway machine,
boiler and blacksmith shops at Fargo, Dak.,
have been burned. Three locomotives and
a number of valuable machinery were con-
sumed. The loss is estimated at $150,000 to
100000.
An avalanche in the Canton of Grisons,
Switzerland, has destroyed thirty chalets
The village escaped destruction, but great
distress prevails.
Mathide Mari, is years of age, and Miss
Romaxo, aged 10, Polish art Students were
found suffocated on q bed in hotel in Rome
On the floor lay the dead body of man.
Letters addre sed to relatives were found
which indicate that all three committed sui
eide.
A terrible snow storm has prevailed
throughout the midland counties in England.
Much loss of life is feared. The highways
and railways are impossible in many places,
and the mails are blocked
The Catholic Armenian patriarch at Con-
stantinople is going TO Rome as the bearer
of the Sultan's presents of diamond ring
for the Pope, and decorations for the
cardinals.
British naval pensioners have been ordered
to notify the government of the names of the
ships they would prefer to serve upon, or the
ports they would prefer to be employed at
in view of being called into possible active
service.
At the Sultan's request Sir William White,
the British ambassador t) the Porte, recent
| ly had two hours private audience with
his majesty. The Sultan expressed his
qualification at the appointment of Sir
William as ambassador, and entrusted him
with cordial New Years mes age to the
| Queen.
| Twelve hundred women employed in the
| State Cigar Factory at MarSeilles have
struck work They complain that the tobacco
| furnished them is of such poor quality that
it is hindrance in their work.
| William BallantyIfe the well-known ser
geant-at-law is dead He was 70 years old.
| The German government has forbidden
Frenchmen belonging to the territorial army
| to stay in Alsace-Lorraine longer than a few
days.
The Danish Folkething dover house Of
Parlament) has been dissolved, owing to @
refusal to agree to the government financia
proposals and army estimates. The elections
for the new Folkething will take place
| Jan %.
France proposes to Professionally increase
the sugar duties 20 per cent, and TO reduce
the sugar bounties from Sept. /.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-14
RIVER.
Terrific Explosion i'm Philadelphia
Patrick Powers Blown Almost to

Terrific Explosion in Philadelphia
Patrick Powers Blown Almost to
Pieces.
A despatch from Philadelphia, Jan. Essays:
A vivid flash like O dart of lightning
from the sky lit up the North
western part of the city at 817 o'clock.
Before the flash OF light had van
ished, two sharp reports, like two quick
caps of thunder followed. The light and the
noise, which lasted about eighteen seconds,
were caused by the explosion of a box of
dynamite cartridges, stored in makeshift
wooden shanCy standing on the vacant lots
on Stiles street. between Twenty-ninth and
Thirtieth streets. The box co 4tqined one
gross of the cartridges and each cartridge
was one inch in diameter, and eight inches
long. They resembled little Roman candles
and the contents of the box would have
blown up $50, 900 pounds of rock The dyna-
mite was used to blast the rock on the ground
where Contractor W. II. Roberts
vas. was &C engaged at in esxcayating the
erecting twenty-four dwelling-houses for P.
A. B. Widener and William S. Elkins. The
box was placed in the temporary storehouse
on Friday, and none Of the cartridges had
been removed. The only persons known to
have been near the shanty at
the time OF the explosion was
Patrick Powers, the night watchman,
either in the shanty or just outside of it at
the time of the explosion. His body was
blown fifty feet to the east
of the shanty toward Twenty ninth
S treet, and he fell fiat on his back
right in front of the door of another Sshanty
which is filled with powder also used for
blasting. He must have been dead before he
bod fha Ii-g 1,N tN,,,, ,gr
and part of his forehead was blown away
His upturned face was black as pitch, and
looked blacker in the snow. A hole as big as
as a small apple was in the right side of
his throat. A piece of one of the
boards of the shanty pierced
his right thigh. A stone that was torn up
out of the ground by the dynamite was
blown into his. breast, and his stomach was
perforated in twenty places by the flying
gravel
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-14
CAUSED BY DISEASED MEAT.
The Family of n howell Contra cto
Takes Suddenly and Violently Ill.

The Family of n howell Contractor
Takes Suddenly ana Violently iii,
On Saturday, Jan. 8, the family of Ether
s. Foss, contractor and builder, residing at
1O1 Stevens street, Lowell, Mass, partook
heartily of meat, vegetables, ETC., for dinner.
1t was noticed by the children that the
meat tasted rather peculiar, but their
parents did not find anything offensive to
the taste or smell. Late in the afternoon the
mother and three children were attacked
with severe pains, and physician was sum-
moned. He administered emetics, after in
quiring what they had for dinner On ex-
animation of some of the meat he pronounced
it diseased, and he win bring it to to the at
tention of the health commissioners.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-14
A saInrr Grnhhar.

1t is stated that Representative James w.
Reid of North Carolina, whose resignation
was announced in the House last week, had
collected his pay as a congressman until the
4th of March next, although his resignation
takes effect Dec 81. There is a question
whether the holder of his order
on the sergeant alarms for the two months
salary, which does not belong to Reid, can
collect it. 1t is believed thaJ he cannot 1t
is thought that the seat will remain vacant,
the time being too short for a special election,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-14

The sweet potato does not blossom in
the open air in the United States but
plants kept in the greenhouse will bios
som in the latter part of winter or in the
spring. The sweet potato makes nice
running plant, and few persons would
suppose it to be the well known esculent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-01
SUPERIOR COURT.
september Term-Judge w. p. .whitehosse
Presiding.

A. c. OrIs, clerk.
CHAs. r. McFAppEN, sheriff.
+. A. SMALL, stenoerapher.
THURSDAY, Sept. %.
Walker vs.. Brsdstreet et ais. Verdict
for plaintiff, Sl004 o..
FRIDAY, Sept. 80.
The Photo Electrotype Engraving and
Manufacturing Co. VS.. Frank E jackson.
l.. c. Cornish for plaintiff; L. T. Carleton
for defendant. Action of assumpsit on ac-
count annexed Ss9469 The plaintiff claims
that he made the defendant certain illustrate
ed business directions and electrotype plates
for use in certain cities in South America.
The defendant claims that said goods we're
not delivered until nearly two years after
they were ordered and that the parties who
had subscribed for said directions and plates
refused to take them because they were not
delivered at the time agreed upon, so that the
defendant lost the sale of said articles
and was largely damaged thereby and
claims to recoup the amount he lost thereby
out of plaintiffs claim On trial.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-01
GARDINER.

The kennebec Maine Ice Co., recently in
corporated is about ready to commence oper.
ations. The first shipment will probably be
made in about two weeks. The object of the
company lie 70 supply the cities of New York
and Brooklyn with Ksnnebec ice, and they
prspose to have the best of Kennebec ice, too.
The officers OF the company are all good,
solid business men, as follows; President,
Hon. j. r, Bodwell Vice-President, wiz
liam Wilson, Hallowell; Secretary, A. NJ
Spear, Gardinar. Treasurer, George b. Nc
Clinch. ttisllowell Directors, Hon. j. r.
Bodwell, VIM. Wilson, :. Soule of Gardin-
er, Simon Clough of Monmouth. ID. L. Mars
ton of Monmouth ID. f. Page of Hallowell
and George b. McChnch of Hslowel. Cap
ital stock, 5000, 900; shares 800. The COM
pany has leased for twenty years one of the
most convonient wharves for their business
in the city of Brooklvn, and built thereon a
very fine 10 600 ton house. They represent
all the Hallowell ice houses, and have two
fine lakes, with houses on the coast This is
the first depot in BROOKLYN or New York for
the supply OF kennebec ice, and the officers
have every assurance that their efforts to
furnish the inhabitants of those cities with
pure ice will be appreciated
The school children were greatly disep-
pointed by the show given in johnson Hall,
Thursday afternoon at about 8 o'clock. and
say IT was not at all what was advertised
The American Express office Is undergoing
much needed repairs.
There are rumors afloat of a dancing
school the coming winter.
Webb, the jeweler, has sold 3S5 watches
IN the past year. 1t is rumored that If he
could invent something that would merge
standard and local time into one he would
sell ten times that number inside of awepk.
j. .. Morrison, Wash Harrington and two
gents whose LANES we were Inable to learn,
returned Thursday from trip to the bay
after ducks 1t is rumored that the ducks
chased them out of the bay. They returned
sooner than they were expected, anvhow, and
IT they brought any game, kept it out of
sight.
). Soule starts for Brooklyn, N. Y, on a
business trip.
The New Orleans Minstrels attracted \
good audience at johnson Hall, last evening.
They carry one Of the finest bands that il has
ever been our pleasure to hear and the enter
tsnment isn't far behind the band.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-01
CON VENTION.
Fridays Session of the WOmensChristian
Temperance Union at Lewiston.

LEWISTON, Sept. 30,
The sessions today of the convention of
the w. G. T. U. have been devoted to reso-
lutions and discussions.
The resolves deplored the lack of observ
ance of the Sabbath and protested against
Sunday excursions. 1t recommends the en-
larging of Juvenile temples and recognized
the increasing use of tobacco as a twin evil
of ntemperance. 1t recommended a REFORM
atory for women, supports suffrage for wom-
en-, and pledges its endeavors to keep i'm
proper books out of the schools: it recon-
mends a Congressional appropriation to ena-
BILE the bureau Of statistics to secure statistics
on intemperance, supported the Blair educa-
tional bill, appreciated the efforts of Gov.
Bodwell to suppress the liquor sale, and en-
dorsed the prohibition party movement.
The latter resolution aroused nsiderable
discussion.
The session closed this evening with an
address by Miss Willard.
long list of department superintendents
was announced.